Sounds great and it will probably suit a few people but really, in the end most people discover that a lap top gives you heaps more and more convenient control over your imaging so will inevitably try to have one on hand if they can and then the stand alone nature of this item is superfoulous..? Plus it costs as much as a lappie anyway. But if you find you will be in the position of imaging without a lappie a fair bit it might be great?
Not many peopel here in Australia use it but I use Astroart4 to control my imaging camera and guide camera and the Astroart guide control interface is fantastic. It not only shows the traditional running +/- horizontal line graph in X and Y of the guide star but you can also see a real time 2D dot plot of the star centroid after each guide exposure on a ringed bulls eye cross hair pattern, each ring is 1 pixel radius further out than the last giving you excellent instant feedback on exactly how good your guiding is going. The centroid dots stay on the screen, building up a nice buch of dots on the bulls eye that basically shows what shape your stars will have ie a more circular bunch = more circular stars, plus a running numerical value of actual guide errors in X and Y after each correction made as well as a running average of these appears under the bulls eye... I love it.
http://www.msb-astroart.com/
Mike
